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From: "Daniel Bünzli" <daniel.buenzli@erratique.ch>
To: oliver <oliver@first.in-berlin.de>
Cc: Gabriel Scherer <gabriel.scherer@gmail.com>,
	Hongbo Zhang <bobzhang1988@gmail.com>,
	Caml List <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] How to profile compiler's performance
Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2012 21:59:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AF136E3F79894EEE86D12D9E5CE13226@erratique.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120826191020.GB1908@siouxsie>

Le dimanche, 26 août 2012 à 21:10, oliver a écrit :
> Which are the sources of this behaviour?
Type inference can be exponential but is rarely so in practice.

> Is this documented somewhere?
A. J. Kfoury, J. Tiuryn, P. Urzyczyn. ML typability is Dexptime-complete. CAAP'90. 1990
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-52590-4_50

Harry G. Mairson. Deciding ML typability is complete for deterministic exponential time. POPL'90. 1990
http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/96709.96748

Example program, from Mairson, as found in Pierce's Types and Programming languages:

let f0 = fun x -> (x, x) in
let f1 = fun y -> f0 (f0 y) in
let f2 = fun y -> f1 (f1 y) in
let f3 = fun y -> f2 (f2 y) in
let f4 = fun y -> f3 (f3 y) in
let f5 = fun y -> f4 (f4 y) in
f5 (fun z -> z)
;;

(Start compilation and go make the coffee)

Best,

Daniel



  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-08-26 19:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-26 14:20 Hongbo Zhang
2012-08-26 15:05 ` Gabriel Scherer
2012-08-26 19:10   ` oliver
2012-08-26 19:36     ` Gabriel Scherer
2012-08-26 19:59     ` Daniel Bünzli [this message]
2012-08-26 20:52       ` oliver
2012-08-27  0:14         ` oliver
2012-08-27 15:33           ` Markus Weißmann
2012-08-26 20:25   ` Hongbo Zhang
2012-08-26 20:05 ` Fabrice Le Fessant
2012-08-26 20:54   ` oliver
2012-08-27  8:00     ` Benedikt Meurer

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